Could it be true?

In Gevlon’s latest post Win-Win-Win, he reviews a week’s worth of posts he made on the LFD system, how you can have a positive and negative effect on it, how you COULD spend your time in it, and possibilities for helping new players in the future.

I have a couple thoughts and observations on the LFD system for the new players. I even had a very in-depth post lined up on it, and then I disproved most of my theory, so here are the abbreviated parts that I think are still true. (some are very obvious)

A sure fire way to get into a random in less than five minutes!

• 1. Queue as a Tank. Course this really only works if you are in-fact a tank. You could abuse the system as Gevlon suggests, but it seems like more work than it’s worth.
• 2. Queue as a healer. It takes about a minute longer to get into a random as a healer then as a tank. But right now it is still fast.
• 3. Get in a group with a tank or a healer from your guild or server and enter the LFD system as a group for the rest of your DPS spots. During peak hours you can almost always find a group for running multiple randoms on your server.
• 4. If you are DPS and can swing it, queue up later at night or very early in the morning, after 11pm or before 9am server time.

The last thing I do before I log every night, usually around 12:30am server time, is log on my mage and run a quick daily (sometimes 2 or 3). I always get in a group in less than five minutes. Obviously this is not ideal for everyone, especially if that pure DPS class is your main, or you cannot log-in at these times. Queuing up late at night as any class will get you in faster than normal as there are less people to pull from.

Another suggestion in Gevlon’s post is that you put on blues or lower level gear to get into groups with better geared players. I had read in a blues post that they count the gear in your bank into the dungeon determination, so doing this probably won’t help you. However if you are a new 80 it might help you to keep your gear score at or around 2800 and stock pile your emblems of triumph. This, in theory, should do a couple things for you…

• 1. It should put you into groups with higher geared tanks and healers (I am assuming you are DPS).
• 2. It could help to get you into a group faster because you should be one of few with that low of a gear score in the system. There are probably more people with GS of 4300+ LFG than 2800-3000. I have no proof of this; I assume that most players as they get 30-50 emblems run right to the T9 vendor to get “uber” gear on as fast as possible. Save up your emblems and buy all your T9 at once!

How can you resist that tasty T9?!?!

• 3. You should get faster runs because you will be with higher geared players in less difficult Heroics. With a GS of 3000 you should never end up in a HoR or any of the other harder heroics. My mage has a GS of 4000 and 70% of the time I get DTK or Nexus as my random. I have never drawn ToC, HoR, PoS, FoS, or HoL. I did get Occ once, but everyone in the group was in 5K plus gear scores. I would make the assumption that the system would take total gear score average of the group when determining where you will go. On the other hand if you are a high GS player it might be to your benefit to group with a lower geared guild mate or friend so that you draw easier/quicker instances to run (in theory, speed will still be determined by skill and knowledge).

This is all something to experiment with, I understand that there are pluses and minuses to every point above that could make your run faster or slower and even make your queue longer. In short, keep your gear score low and get a high level tank as your best friend and you will be in full T9 in no time!